Improvement in sweat-bands for hats



0. 0. KANOUSE. Sweat-Band for'Hats.

No. 212,948. Patented Mar. 4, 1879.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE}.

CHARLES O. KANOUSE, OF NEWARK, NET/V JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO THE CELLULOID HAT AND TRIMMING COMPANY,OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN SWEAT-BANDS FOR HATS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 212,948, dated March 4, 1879; application filed January 20, 1879. I

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES 0. KANOUSE, of Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Sweat Bands for Hats, of which the following is a specification:

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan of a section of a sweat-band. Fig. 2 is a cross-section of the same.

My invention relates to sweat-bands for hats,

having elasticity to enable them to be put in place, and held in position without any stitching; and it consists in uniting with a sweatband, of leather, rubber, celluloid, or some other form of pyroxyline, an elastic back, of wood, sheet metal, papier-mach, or pasteboard, or whatever else may be used, to give elasticity and allow the sweat -band to be sprung into place, and be held in a hat by its own pressure.

The sweat-band A is of celluloid, and is united with a backing of elastic wood, B, by cementing the same to one side of the wood and turning over the edges onto the back of the wood, making smooth and finished edges of the band.

The sweat-band is cut the desired length, so that when put in the hat the ends will just meet together and press againsteach other, and hold the band in position by the pressure.

This band requires no stitching to keep it in place, and no other means of fastening except its own elasticity; but if in wear, by any circumstance, the band shall becomeloose, it may be held with a little cement between the wood and hat.

Other materials, as named, are subject to the same mode of preparation and use, the invention being in a sweat-band of some suitable material joined with an elastic backing, as I have shown.

1f desirable, as it may be sometimes, both sides of the elastic strip may be covered with the celluloid or other material used. Therefore,

to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The sweat-band made of some suitable material, as leather or celluloid, having a back ing, to which the band is cemented, made of wood, sheet metal, or any elastic substance, providing a band that may be sprung into position in a hat and held in place by its own pressure without stitching, substantially as and for the purposes specified.

2. The sweat-band having the front A of some suitable material, as leather or celluloid, and an elastiebackin g, B, of wood, sheet metal, or any elastic substance, and the edges of the front turned over onto the backing, making finished edges, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

CHARLES O. KANOUSE.

Witnesses:

HORACE HARRIS, J. W. BONNEL.

\Vhat I claim as my invention, and desire 

